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Another mind blowing sumi session with returning members Rebecca, Isabelle A, Ron R., Luke F, a bold new member named Amy Jo, and numerous passers-by stumbling around the block. Very busy and very positive, we completed a 4 panel drawing that will be translated into a stack of free-to-take prints on the gallery floor. Stop by if you’re taking a stroll, the gallery will be open to the public wed-sat afternoons. Enjoy! Sumi Ink CLub is all ages, all humans, all the time.

Lucky Dragons performed at the opening of Sumi Ink Club’s first American solo show “Tableau Ya Mind” at Hope Gallery in the middle of the sidewalk on Echo Park Ave. I was cherishing every moment, as the feeling of playing on our own street, 4 blocks from our little house, directly to our neighbors was the most beautiful, transcendent, and solid feeling of connection with our LA surroundings.

The show was an auspicious beginning for Hope Gallery and a new chapter in the history of Sumi Ink Club. Sumi Sessions will occupy the gallery on select sundays, and the show will continue through the end of March.

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!
On March 23 2008 people around the world gathered, sat down, had a conversation, and made a drawing together.

SUMI WRAP-UP FROM THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF SUMI INK CLUB:
The spirit here in Los Angeles was very positive, and the sumi crew that gathered at SiteLA this was the friendliest, boldest, and most experimental group to date. A truly outstanding assembly of Sumi Ink artists, ranging from age 11 on up. We completed a 3 panel drawing with marathon intensity. The conversation was quite lively–and each of us left the studio having forged a few new friendships and human connections.

I think that these small happenings, and tiny occurrences will have a powerful global effect to bring about peace.

It’s finally happening. Groups in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Providence, Paris, and Vidyagram, Bahal will converge to Sumi around the world this Sunday, March 23 from 2-5pm (in the respective time zone of each). Participants include Triple Base Gallery (SF), SiteLA (LA), Little Cakes (NY), ShoboShobo (Paris), Lexifur’s Lair and Pickle Alley (Providence, RI), and Le Fun Club + The Art room of BRCM School (Vidyagram, Bahal India)

Sumi Ink CLub held another solid session this afternoon with a new member named Rebecca. For the yellow drawing below, our inspirations were tidepools and sealife, the drawing may be included in a publication by David Horvitz on viewing sunsets in Palos Verdes.

Sumi Ink club held a clandestine, unpublicized meeting at SiteLA this morning, as beautiful light and the scent of jasmine flowers poured effusively over LA.

In conjunction with the exhibition “Starting with Blade” at Triple Base Gallery in San Francisco Sumi Ink Club will hold a multi-city, simultaneous drawing event. Worldwide sumi collaborations will take place on Sunday March 23 at 2-5 pm at SiteLA (los Angeles), Triple Base (San Francisco), Little Cakes (NY), and with Shobo Shobo (somewhere in Paris), and potentially in other cities. The event will culminate in the publication of a book containing drawings, photographs, and maps. Sumi ink Club is spreading out–trotting the globe in bold graphic lines and squiggly shapes. Perhaps this act of social gathering, frenzied creation, and global collaboration will mean an end to war on Mar 24th–let’s see what happens. Let’s draw.

We are excited by this new partnership with triple base gallery and artist Michelle Blade, whose work “investigates the transformative roll of public gatherings where social hierarchy dissolves and abrupt moments of collective completion occur.”